House-moving truck



(No Model.) S. G. MAPLE.

HOUSE MOVING TRUCK. Patented Mar. 27; 1894.

' sufficient to nearly fill the spaces between the UNITED STATES PATENTOFEicE,

SOLOMON C. MAPLE, OF "HEBRON, NEBRASKA.

HOUSE-MOVING TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,052, dated March27, 1894.

Application filed May 31, 1893.

To all whom, it may concern:

3e it known that I, SOLOMON O. MAPLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hebron, 1n the county of Thayer and State of Nobraska, haveinvented a newand usefulHouse- Mov ng Apparatus, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for moving houses, the objects in Viewbeing to provlde an apparatus of this class of strong, du-- rableconstruction and adapted to support and transport houses or buildings ofvarious kinds,

and to accomplish the same in such manner as to obviate anytorsionalstrain to the houses, thereby maintaining them intact and without inguryto their plaster, walls, &c.

Wlth these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainfeatures of construction hereinafter specified and particularly pointedout in the claims.

Referring to the drawings:-Figure 1 is a perspective view of anapparatus constructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts 1n both figures of thedrawings.

In the construction of the apparatus I employa series of three trucks,which I will deslgnat-e for convenience as the front truck 1 and therear trucks 2. The trucks 1 and 2 each consists of a pair of oppositeheavy beams 3, which are connected at their ends by cross-rungs 4 andhave their under edges between their ends provided with transverselyopposite pairs of bearings 5. In these hearings 5 are arranged looseaxles 6, and the axles carry heavy stout rollers 7 of lengths beams 3 ofeach truck. The upper sides of the beams 3 of the rear trucks thusconstructed have let therein and securely bolted thereto a transverseconnecting beam 8, which beam at each side of its center and adjacent tothe inner beams of the trucks are provided with clevises 9.

The front truck has let into the upper side of its beams a transversebeam 10 having a central opening 11, and surmounting this beam 10, whichas shown is convexed upon serial No. 476,136. (No model.)

its upper side, is a rest-beam 12, to the under side of which is secureda heavy metal plate 13, from whose under surface there depends aking-bolt14 which fits loosely within the opening 11 of the rest-beam10. The plate projects in rear of the rest beam and has a pair ofopenings 15 therein, the said openings being engaged by the frontends'of a pair of draft rods 16 whose ends are hookshaped as at 17 forthe purpose of engaging the openings and at their rear ends are clevises9. The hooks are open sufficiently to be readily detached from theclevises and the plate, so that longer or shorter rods may besubstituted as desired. In this manner a long or short coupling maybemaintained between the series of trucks, and thus the apparatus adaptedfor houses of various dimensions. It will also be seen that by reason ofthe triangular arrangement of the trucks houses having wings or of L orT-shape in plan may be as readily accommodated.

In operation the draft-bail19 with which the front truck is provided issecured to the usual draft rod, and it will be seen that the front truckbeing swiveled is capable of being turned without imparting anytorsional strain to the building, whereby its plaster and framing arecarefully maintained intact, and also that the said front truck iscapable of oscillating without jarring the building by reason of theconvexity of the beam 10.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing anyof the advantages of this invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a house-movingapparatus, a rear pair of rear trucks, comprising transverse rigidrollers combined with a transverse connecting beam rigidly connectingthe trucks, afront centrally located truck, a rest bar swiveled thereon,and draft devices loosely. connected to the rest bar and to thetransverse connectihg beam of the rear trucks, substantially asspecified,

2A, In a house-moving apparatus, the combination with a pair of reartrucks and a transverse connecting beam or bar, of a front truck, a restbar supported thereby and swiveled thereon, a perforated plate, anddetachable draft rods terminating in hooks for engaging the plate andthe clevises on the connecting bar, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SOLOMON O. MAPLE.

Witnesses:

M. R. DOW, l J. W. CRAWFORD.

